Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested in France, reports say

Pavel Durov, the billionaire founder of encrypted messaging app Telegram, has been arrested in France, according to local reports.

News broadcasters BFMTV and TF1 have quoted unnamed sources as saying the Russian-born entrepreneur - who became a French citizen in 2021 - was the subject of a search warrant.

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[maxwolf]

Refusing to share subscribers' personal data with Mossad and the CIA is not a crime!

[GabrielAntoineBr]

When they say it's lack of moderation, in fact, they're saying that Telegram doesn't bow to government censorship of people.

[Bungle-UK]

How dare anyone have a voice that doesn’t agree with the establishment.

[HANUMAN_SARNAAM]

Data safety is the best joke of this era

[OdinDomaYa]

Let the automakers be arrested, people are being hit by their cars

[adamc]

Enforced by the USA 🤦🏼‍♂️ drug trafficking, fraud, cyber bullying and promoting terrorism 😂🤷🏼‍♂️ another political prisoner 🤦🏼‍♂️🙌🏻

[BurnIt]

And if they can't find anything to jail him for they will accuse him of rape...

[lukestevens]

This is a disgrace to democratic freedom. What has he done?

[NameRiioz]

Mmm that smell of western freedom and democracy.😂

[elbarto]

Pavel is just the CEO of Telegram. His older brother is the genius behind the encryption they cant crack. Snowden or Assange as Telegram new CEO?

[G-ra-ha-m]

Imagine allowing free, private speech, the horror!!!
that would never happen on youtube, my low credit score here means 90% of my messages are instantly deleted, regardless of content.

[deusvult]

He refused to cooperate with Israels Military.
That was their line.

[Mr-J...]

Bear in mind when they say "moderation", they actually mean government monitoring.

[Unknown.User.]

So, Pavel had emigrated from Russia in 2014 to do business free of state control. And 10 years later he was arrested in the land of origin of Statue of Liberty. What a sad joke it is!

[jules]

Privacy is critical to freedom. Don't fall for the lies of the surveillance state

[mjvroft]

Darkness quickly engulfs the once free world.

[lyndanewman]

Stop blaming people and calling them far right.

[DJFAmenHeavy]

Still banging on about non existent ‘far right’ groups 😂

[sutters]

Orwell is screaming from the past….”it was a WARNING NOT A MANUAL!!!!🤯🤬”

[Oscaruk]

Free speech (but nothing about Israel is allowed)